Today is the day for new ballet triple: Ballo della regina / Live Fire Exercise / Danse à Grande Vitesse. We’ve pulled together some facts, figures, interviews, and backstage footage, to help you gen up on these three extraordinary works. One of which is a world premiere (Live Fire Exercise), one a Company first (Ballo), and the last a much loved Company favourite (DGV).

WATCH: a film of Merrill Ashley discussing Ballo and rehearsing The Royal Ballet's dancers for it.

Live Fire Exercise:

Wayne McGregor’s latest new work for The Royal Ballet, a collaboration with the visual artist John Gerrard, a creator of ‘real-time virtual worlds’.

READ: Our Discover page, with facts, figures, and an extended interview with McGregor and Gerrard. They discuss Michael Tippett’s music, inspiration from Frederick Ashton, the distant African land of Djoubuti, and the origin of the term ‘live fire exercise’.

WATCH: A slideshow with audio detailing the visual inspiration for this new ballet.

Dance à grande vitesse:

Christopher Wheeldon’s witty choreographic response to Michael Nyman’s 1993 MGV (Musique à Grand Vitesse - High-Speed Music), commissioned for the inauguration of the French high speed train, the TGV, on its first North-European line.